cady coleman is already from reactor number one in the radiation levels are much higher then or do you need it to be safe i'm sure to turn it into pretty much coming up we have all the detailed. plans to expand its air strikes to libya's northwest while colonel gadhafi used to use a high profile chess game to reiterate his reluctance to leave the country plus. there is this new media hype over the scandalous case of an american senator tweeting the racy pictures of himself to spot concerns that the u.s.

is letting gossip overshadow the real news. a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow. now radioactive material has been detected in cymbalta around japan's fukushima plant with concentration levels two hundred forty times higher than safety limits scientists warn that the element strontium is highly dangerous to humans as a kind of cumulated bones and possibly cause cancer shawn thomas has been to fukushima city to measure the radiation levels. here were eighty kilometers away and the radiation levels in this area in many many phrase there are many. or really close because if you look at a map of where pretty much

a city is in relation to the actual nuclear facilities that plant number one where a lot of bad radiation. and relating from look at wind are bringing that radiation . and shameless. city and the rain in the wind is blowing the radiation in this direction so we were at a spot where the radiation levels were one thousand times what is considered to be a safe dosage so. very very dangerous levels and so scientists so that we're working with today from different universities are working together on projects to try to figure out ways to use a simple methods to actually clean that radiation up and these guys actually. are working if they can contaminate the soil right now. and as you can see the two women are wearing any protective clothing clothing from the scientists are one of the concerns is that you can actually have one spot which is only thirty times in

the accepted normal levels and then you go to another spot which is just a meter away and it can jump to five hundred to a thousand times depending on where rain water and mud have collected one of the concerns of course is that grass is you can see filter for nuclear. material and. draw into grassy places when they go to those areas they could actually be absorbing more radiation from the grasses well so look interesting is this area that we're in right now is considered a safe area it is not considered a mandatory evacuation area but authorities are looking into to see whether it should be considered evacuation or at least hot spots within the city should be a back waited because of these very very high micro places the smoke. if you will where the radiation is just up the charts. so now let's get some more insight from japan we're joined by james corbett who's the editor of the independent news website called report dot com so as we've just heard from our

correspondent the levels of radiation in some spots eighty kilometers away from the plant are a thousand times higher than normal people that they thought would risk you think. well i think i think that question in a way presupposes the answer because as we know from the air seven report put out by the national academy of sciences back in two thousand and five there is no such thing as a safe level of radiation exposure and that any level of radiation exposure increases the risk of cancer and however negligible that risk may be with any particular person on any particular date any particular spot when it's averaged out over a large population like is living in the fukushima region unfortunately means there will be over time and increase in in cancer rates there and really just a question of how many and this point we obviously can't say because if we don't even at this point know the extent of the scope of of the radiation danger but but as that report reveals it's obviously much higher than it's been previously supposed to do much higher than has been reported but when you're talking about

issues of cancer let's talk about the chemical of a strong to your more high concentration of strontium detected in the sea and ground water near the fukushima plant what kind of dangers does oppose in comparison to the leaks that we are all really over. well that's a that's a good question and i think one of the one of the big issues here is simply the amount of radioactive water that already exists so any new leaks of any kind are going to be an incredible burden on the efforts that are already on underway to try to clean up the water contaminated because they are now running out of space to actually store the contaminated water in the fukushima in the immediate vicinity of the plant and i believe within two weeks they're actually going to run out of space so they're trying to get a system on line for treating the water but apparently they had to test for that is going to be pushed back another few days it's already been pushed back from last friday and it's maybe not scheduled to start until tuesday or wednesday so so at

this point it's becoming a very grim situation and any new leaks i think will only burden the efforts that are already underway to try to decontaminate the incredible twelve hundred tons of contaminated water that are already seeping out per day for an orrible tragedy now as you mentioned the issue of running out of space where you store contaminated water and other radio active materials are three months into the crisis thousands of evacuees are still stuck in crowded temporary shelters and what does the immediate future look like for them at this point. well unfortunately it's just about as bleak as it's been at any point in the past three months certainly three months in the still living in emergency shelters and. many of them have been relocated several times now to schools and places where they are originally staying open for the new school year back in april and they were kicked out of various gyms and other facilities that they were using at that time so so it's really quite a grim situation for those who are still evacuees but even even the people who do

actually have problems and residences in the area and are in somewhat of a stable condition they are still unfortunately going to be suffering the effects of this for a long time it's thirty one with radiation and the media is telling people here that it's just a question of wearing long sleeves and trying to stay stay out of the rain if possible but it's going to be. quite a difference to their daily lives i would imagine. that the media there could be downplaying the severity of this ongoing tragedy but you mention it being a grim situation you're in japan right now i mean is there any sense of optimism among the people that an end to the crisis could be approaching. i don't think so i don't think optimism would be the right word i think from what i've seen it's more of a question of well we'll have to put up with this too so people are beginning to adjust their their lives and routines and we see that in all sorts of different aspects of daily life here but but one of them is the introduction of a new phenomenon called super cool because where in an effort to save air

conditioning because obviously there's a lot less electricity available for the tokyo area businesses are no converting to very casual where there are there are changing business hours to try to accommodate . the more so daylight savings and that sort of thing so so there is just every day types of shifts in people's schedules and routines that are being made and i think people are just putting up with it and and as far as seen into this or seeing some sort of hope in this i just don't see that at this at this point so you say not a sense of optimism among the people there in japan but certainly some lifestyle changes being made to adjust journalist and to all of colbert report dot com thank you thank you. about thousands have been out on the streets of athens in protest against the second round of austerity measures debated in the greek parliament people don't want new taxes or wage cuts but without them the country won't receive international bailout cash sarah ferguson athens.

there you can see how many people at times to the right. no no no they. can. be measured. by the government that would be making people think that the bank is going to be building three yet they've already been. very very good they paid the government have to keep anything by that i mean they need. a lot of pension almost three. was a great. time a. great thing that. people. simply didn't think that way oh it certainly seems about might be the case. that particular ferry connections will have to be implemented if planes want to continue i think the international bell out money now this comes on the package they get the relief last week they say that sixty percent of the green plant both are out in the field i

still think forty feet of it been thank you for your all powerful what we've spoken to some of the younger people here they say tell me i'm sorry i think they're right there but what we should put the blame is on. the voting system that the talks good but the people of this doesn't have to do anything. but stray from the they can do it game and that's why we came here to tell them that they are incapable of saving us and we want to. go our way make up elections now and that may get a new government but we shall pass and out people that include money to the budget . saying it we're paying it back by. price. by not by think you can.

continue to track the developments in greece for you our twitter feed having a look at the screen right now we can we can see them in her latest tweet she says the protesters are chanting demands for food jobs justice and freedom for all of us are two of the schools calling for first time impressions from an infuriating. if you would alter your life from moscow police in the united states of closed an investigation into the so-called sexting case that's dominated national headlines

for well over two weeks sen tweeted a young woman with a racy photo of himself since then the story has been overshadowing world news with some media putting it ahead of the war in libya and raging violence in syria now if you use a gun in a look so where priorities lie in of the american media doesn't know the american media can't get enough anthony weiner's crotch shot marrieds u.s. congressman had sent this lewd photo to a young woman via twitter and that story made it perfectly sexy again nothing but the feeling was a cover up this is a twitter hopes a prank that was done on the victim of this poor girls the victim of a subsequent embarrassing compassion last friday night i tweeted a photograph of myself that i intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in seattle once i realize i posted to twitter i panicked i took it down and said that i had been hacked and of course. i am deeply sorry for the pain this is

caused by whites. and our family. it seemed anthony weiner's indiscretion overshadowed all other news in america we know when or if we are when are we in or is this you we dated for a few months like almost ten years ago to the great point even comedians for whom the congressman's heart sure has become a bottomless source of inspiration for you describe it american history you can see i think your her as i. thank you of course. could have been blocked by this recent scandal on a more serious note many people think the only way to get ratings this is to lead and constantly churn and cover these types of lascivious stories that really don't have any bearing on people's lives whether or not it's a private issue that has affected nobody for the people involved the media pressure is so high that it has become a trend in america to make equally personal apologies on camera and everybody who

has been hurt. you know. the same goes for celebrities like tiger woods' extramarital affairs made headlines for months i am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior i engaged in the apologies seem to kill the gossip industry even more when politicians stage and i do use this word staged these apology kind of. they are very likely responding to their public relations. visors their lawyers etc etc i mean and the networks american media companies love it because again it generates even more scandal american television don't make me feel old hand with our analyst miles courts and. police is endless and all of these scandals have to do with private matters

a big deal they knew seemed bartman to such an extent that many hats either got sick as were placed actual beings in america i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . just on a quarter past the hour now here and still to come on the program. and she is ready sentiment got business name in your activists on before he's imports of products from the occupied palestinian territories. as we meet a. car crash victim who made a heroic wheelchair journey from the far east to moscow with this in a bid to draw attention to the daily challenges faced by dissing. colonel gadhafi has said he will not leave libya despite mounting pressure he used a chess game against the visiting president of the world chess federation to reinforce his defiance meanwhile at nato made its move announcing plans to expand military strikes in libya and he could have been forces in the northwestern parts of the country if there were reports that rebels seized the city of zawiya just

about thirty kilometers from the capital. tripoli but those claims were later denied by the beginning of the us radio host and a peace activist ralph schoenman says that the west has hijacked the libyan uprising of its own interests the united states is spending two million dollars a day in a billion and a half dollars it's just been handed to these so-called rebels usually the leadership of these rebels. his cars a twenty year operative the central intelligence agency and cia and the n.s.a. yes hijack this uprising initially against me and it is a complete some board net. oppositionist group now that is being funded and armed by the nato powers and the united states their objective is to carve up libya into several countries and season twenty four point two billion barrels of oil reserves that's what the objective business of the sixth imperial war that obama is waging

in the region and it is a genocidal war in all its features target is the population at large not merely the darfur region. the meantime in syria president assad's forces have reportedly taken over the rebel held town of as you said i'll show good but meanwhile pressure is mounting on syria with britain and france pushing for a draft u.n. resolution with russia and china who oppose any attempts to intervene in the syrian conflict have said that they will not back to me if i were a world observer adriana's which believes that the west is using the u.n. to benefit from the country's civil conflict. of united nations this. is merely an international organization who are going to promote the interests of its most powerful members notably united states britain and so as the west so world is concerned also from the other countries in the union because just as they are considering cracking down on the syrian government must consider cracking down on

the governments of battery or other or each of the incidents. when there was also and for what is happening in syria simultaneously in almost all countries of the middle east and in north africa. we flexed internal problems all countries have internal problems no doubt about it and there is a genuine desire on the part of many people in syria no doubt to get rid of its very fossilize government but there is also external interference notably from the united states and from britain and from france to take advantage of these internal problems. you would r.t. live from moscow and all the latest news features and analysis lined up for you of course on our web site check out some of the items right now nationalist icon it. has been laid to rest here in moscow it's after he was fatally shot last week log on to r.t. dot com to find out more about the controversy surrounding the disgraced for the coverage along with expert opinion available online right up. on our website an

american anti missile watch it has sailed into the black sea it's ready for war games with the ukrainian navy russia says its presence close to the country's southern border threatens national security follow the dispute by logging on to r.t. . just only twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow there's a growing and see israeli sentiment in europe with calls on e.q. and u.s. governments to stop ignoring the occupation of palestinian land and politicians remain silent on the subject activists rallied to draw attention to the plight of palestinian people. from brussels. of rage against israel he's called for the boycott of his really good over its continued expansion

of palestinian land a jewish demonstrator says enough is enough. american leaders do nothing e.u. does nothing the repeated un resolutions have ruled israeli settlements illegal. activities small european union to the main exports of the key point to read stories and fruits the full human barricades it's a use a ploy deposed still getting through. israel's carmel brand market settlement produce and. profit all keep trying forces and moving their citizens are committing war crimes under the geneva convention public pressure is bearing fruit it's elite biggest grocer co-ops food grown in the occupied territories the world's largest security for g four s. has stopped work with these really checkpoints on the west bank. breached human

rights shareholders forced bill james dixie a bank to sell its israel loan over a million euro loans to settlements activists next target is the brew links between thirty and jerusalem e.u. transport giant veolia protesters are also seeking to file charges on the international law against israel over its construction of settlements which the authorities are investigating both and police will cause these complaints on to the courts judges must rule if firms who buy food from the pride palestinian land are complicit in war crimes irish m.e.p. paul murphy will join calls a flotilla the biggest yet to braise awareness of the situation knowing activists were killed by israeli commandos when a similar operation was stopped in international waters last year murphy feel things have got so bad he's ready to risk his life hopefully people aren't killed

this time as they were last known by his rating and military forces. that brings the world's attention to this issue such moves say experts false politicians and business to act to public opinion change your mind before they were thinking that israel was grabbed by the palestinian public opinion ever a real capacity to challenge and international institution the europeans vision and un and also. the last time such a campaign was mobile. internationally was against the so called toy regime israel may have powerful lawyers but opposition in europe to its policies is good to. see brussels. well israel's blockade of gaza is not only damaging to be area but to israel itself so says the e.u. high representative for foreign affairs exclusive interview with baroness catherine

ashton is coming your way next hour but first here's a preview. we're very consistent saying what needs to happen is that the israelis need to open the borders with guards or under allow people and goods to move freely now i recognize the importance of the security situation we've always done but it seems to me a position that's not tenable where you have the inability to get the economy moving a lot of things i've been saying to the israelis for some time is it's in their interest to see economic growth and development and girls are not small businesses you know that could really do well lots of people want jobs eighty percent of people receive food and so many young people who don't have a future and part of the answer to that part of making sure that we have security is giving them that future and that means allowing in and out the products the

goods were girls or could actually sell and support its own economy. and other interviews coming your way in about an hour and ten minutes time let's check out some other headlines from around the world now and clashes have erupted in the following recent parliamentary elections thousands of supporters of the pro kurdish party which won just six percent of the votes clashed with police officers forty dispersed stone throwing protesters fifty percent of the votes went to the ruling prime minister tell you one to one party you still fail to gain the parliamentary one. dorothy and hyde to ensure a constitutional change. some flights have resumed in australia after earlier disruptions from an ash plume on the left over fifty thousand passengers stranded fears remain that the volcanic ash can severely damage aircraft engines the chilean eruption happened over a week ago and has forced air traffic in several south american countries to come

to a standstill. well nature's beauty and its dangers all being explored in our special report here on r.t. today we look into the enormous power of an avalanche is a taste of what's coming your way and later in the. stream cascading from mountain slopes the view is midsomer right here. but this beauty brings deaths at a speed of more than two hundred kilometers from. the stand to launch an archie. power despite being confined to a wheelchair for over ten years one russian hero hasn't let that hold him back he's covered eleven thousand kilometers right across russia with an electric god to adore attention to the plight of disabled people he's pushed over at the man in person. alexander's top speed is not much more than walking pace it's been more

than a decade since the accident which put him in a wheelchair driving the other car was america's consul general in bridge of our stock eligible a drunk and that's where the problems began as a diplomat american douglas canned could claim immunity officials back in washington refused to waive his rights so alexander had no chance of getting redress this is the world that people walk away scot free but i will keep seeking justice. alexander tells me he's been fighting for compensation ever since to pay for his specialist care and medical expenses so long after the original accident it's important to him to keep his case in the public eye he has just finished an american of american proportions writing his life and drug eleven thousand kilometers from his home to moscow and it's been a journey of discovery the abolishing the real i was most surprised by the decency and generosity of our people i never expected such help just imagine every set of

stairs demands for people to get me up that you. despite all the obstacles heat the way to the heart of yourself many people along the way also to go to the kremlin tell them how we live but alexander is not the complete inclined to strongly believes that no matter what the odds are everyone says it is in their own hands the people he's mad have certainly heard his call but it's the people in power in washington who really need to listen and act very brisk over r.t. moscow. and i'll be back with a recover our top stories in a just a few minutes. is

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